Rabbi Spero draws upon literally hundreds of commentators, from classic to contemporary, to explore many crucial themes of each parashah in Sefer Bereishis and Shemos. And, of course, the book is filled with Rabbi Spero's marvelous, poignant true stories.

From the forests of the Ba'al Shem Tov to the lawns of Camp Simcha; from Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt'l to a quadriplegic ba'al teshuvah, from a Polish nobleman contemplating a pogrom to Rav Yisrael Salanter zt'l holding a sitdown strike in Kovno - here are tales of determination and courage, of mesirus nefesh, of our loyalty to Hashem and His loving loyalty to us.